A 'save India Club' poster is pictured inside the India Club restaurant in London.
The India Club, a restaurant and bar on the Strand near London’s West End, is trying to use its storied history to block proposals by owners Marston Properties to turn the seven-storey building into an upmarket boutique hotel.
“This is a very historic place, we haven’t changed anything,” Yadgar Marker, the club’s current director, told AFP during a recent lunchtime dosa – an Indian pancake – and various curry dishes flew out the kitchen. “Even these tabletops are from the early ‘50s... It’s like a museum,” he said.
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